Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SPRUNT – SPUNG'Y
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SPRUNT, a.
Active; vigorous; strong; becoming strong. [Not in use.]
SPRUNT, n.
- Any thing short and not easily bent. [Not in use.]
- A leap; a spring. [Not in use.]
- A steep ascent in a road. [Local.]
SPRUNT, v.i.
To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward. [Not in use.]
SPRUNT'LY, adv.
Vigorously; youthfully; like a young man. [Not in use.] – B. Jonson.
SPRY, a.
Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active; vigorous. [This word is in common use in New England, and is doubtless a contraction of sprig. See; Sprightly.]
SPUD, n. [Dan. spyd, a spear; Ice. spioot. It coincides with spit.]
- A short knife. [Little used.]
- Any short thing; in contempt.
- A tool of the fork kind, used by farmers.
SPUD, v.t.
To dig or loosen the earth with a spud. [Local.]
SPUL'LER, n.
One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom. [Local.]
SPUME, n. [L. and It. spuma; Sp. espuma.]
Froth; foam; scum; frothy matter raised on liquors or fluid substances by boiling, effervescence or agitation.
SPUME, v.i.
To froth; to foam.
SPU-MES'CENCE, n.
Frothiness; the state of foaming. – Kirwan.
SPU-MIF'ER-OUS, a.
Producing foam.
SPUM-OUS, or SPUM-Y, a. [L. spumeus.]
Consisting of froth or scum; foamy. The spumy waves proclaim the wat'ry war. – Dryden. The spumous and florid state of the blood. – Arbuthnot.
SPUN, v. [pret. and pp. of Spin.]
SPUNGE, n. [L. spongia; Gr. σπογγια; Fr. eponge; It. spugna; Sp. esponja; Sax. spongea; D. spons.]
- A porous marine substance, found adhering to rocks, shells, &c., under water, and on rocks about the shore at low water. It is generally supposed to be of animal origin, and it consists of a fibrous reticulated substance, covered by a soft gelatinous matter, but in which no polypes have hitherto been observed. It is so porous as to imbibe a great quantity of water, and is used for various purposes in the arts and in surgery. – Encyc. Cuvier.
- In gunnery, an instrument for cleaning cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with lamb akin. For small guns, it is commonly fixed to one end of the handle of the rammer.
- In the manege, the extremity or point of a horse-shoe, answering to the heel. Pyrotechnical spunge, is made of mushrooms or fungi, growing on old oaks, ash, fir, &c., which are boiled in water, dried and beaten, then put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again dried in an oven. This makes the black match or tinder brought from Germany. – Encyc.
SPUNGE, v.i.
- To suck in or imbibe, as a spunge.
- To gain by mean arts, by intrusion or hanging on; as, an idler who spunges on his neighbor.
SPUNGE, v.t.
- To wipe with a wet spunge; as, to spunge a slate.
- To wipe out with a spunge, as letters or writing.
- To cleanse with a spunge; as, to spunge a cannon.
- To wipe out completely; to extinguish or destroy.
SPUNG'ED, pp.
Wiped with a spunge; wiped out; extinguished.
SPUNG'ER, n.
One who uses a spunge; a hanger on.
SPUNG'I-FORM, a. [spunge and form.]
Resembling a spunge; soft and porous; porous.
SPUNG'I-NESS, n.
The quality or state of being spungy or porous like spunge. – Harvey.
SPUNG'ING, ppr.
- Wiping with a wet spunge; cleansing with a spunge.
- Gaining by mean arts, by intrusion or hanging on.
SPUNG'ING-HOUSE, n.
A bailif's house to put debtors in.
SPUNG'I-OUS, a.
Full of small cavities, like a spunge; as spungious bones. – Cheyne.
SPUNG'Y, a.
- Soft and full of cavities; of an open, loose pliable texture; as, a spungy excrescence; spungy earth; spungy cake; the spungy substance of the lungs.
- Full of small cavities; as, spungy bones.
- Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like spunge.
- Having the quality of imbibing fluids.